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Latest iPhone stylus trend: Sausages

Capacitive touch screens such as those found on the iPhone are great because they respond well to finger taps. That’s also their undoing in winter because users don’t want to take off their gloves in the cold to make a call or text a friend. Over in South Korea, iPhone users have come up with an ingenious solution–sausages.

Are sausages the new stylus?
(Credit: Kottke.org)

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Will Apple approve Opera Mini for the iPhone?

Opera Software is confident that Apple will approve the Opera Mini browser and make it available in the App Store. What do you think?

This is interesting for several reasons. First, Apple has a long history of rejecting apps which it claims duplicate functionality already present on the iPhone. Since the iPhone already has a browser, Opera Mini would seem to offer duplicate functionality, and therefore be a prime candidate for rejection.

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